The expertise of academia, where decades of insight often go untouched, could be balanced with a seasoned detective or tough prosecutor adept at turning a crook.
If a man fails to look you in the eye, he's probably not a crook at all but a dentist mentally rebuilding your mouth.
OK, a lot people hate Wall Street these days, and the average guy thinks anyone who wears a suit and works at a bank is a crook, but there is a masturbatory element to all these inquiries and investigations that the Justice Department, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission keep telling us that they're conducting about Wall Street these days.
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"People here thought he was a crook," explained one voter in Donetsk, "but at least he was their crook".
In Chapel Hill, N.C., a cosmopolitan if out-of-the-way corner of the New South, Bill Neal, a self-taught, 34-year-old graduate of Duke University, was plowing the same furrow at a restaurant called Crook's Corner.
SANCTUARY AT UNION VILLAGE METHODIST CHURCH Aoife O'Donovan and Crooked Still, folk.
Great outdoors Morecambe Bay is stunning, as is the scenery at the Crook O'Lune, a spot which inspired Turner.
The speed of light in a vacuum is constant, so as long as the tubes were cleared of air and other particles the beams would recombine at the crook in synchrony unless a gravitational wave happened to pass through.
But there is a visible difference between this team and others: at the crook of the riders' arms are a series of dark needle marks.
